Silenced by partner

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We had a visitor to our house and as I was about to speak my husband gave me a hand gesture to indicate not to talk. I stared at him shocked and he asked me not to interrupt him, like I had done that morning too. I am really embarrassed that he did this in front of our visitor.

AIBU?

Don't know, do you tend to interrupt?

Did you interrupt?

Do you do that often?

Was today the last straw for him?

Or - does he often silence you, alone or in company?

Either way - you need a sensible conversation.

He was rude to do that in front of your visitor

Interrupting is very rude though.

Slightly depends. If you constantly interrupt him and he was just at the end of his tether then it’s more understandable. But if you don’t usually, he was really OTT.

I used to have a flatmate who was generally lovely but would interrupt all the time. It was so wearisome and rude. I lost my cool a bit once and asked her (albeit calmly) in front of a mutual friend of ours to please not interrupt me and she was genuinely shocked to be pulled up for it. Later she told me she thought I had been incredibly rude to mention it, but she honestly used to interrupt me multiple times in every conversation and I was so sick of it.

Depends if you were interrupting or not.

Was he trying to stop you blurting out something that he didn’t want the visitor to know?